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1. A POLLING PLACE APPARATUS FOR ELECTROMAGNETICALLY RECORDING VOTER''SPREFERENCES AS THEY ARE MADE FROM AN ELECTION BALLOT DISPLAYED ON SAIDAPPARATUS, A PRIMARY ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT, A PLURALITY OF MANUALLYOPERABLE PREFERENCE DESIGNATING SWITCHES MOVABLY MOUNTED ON SAIDAPPARATUS AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED INTO SAID PRIMARY ELECTRICALCIRCUIT, SDAID PREFERENCE DESIGNATING SWITCHES BEING ADAPTED TO BE MOVEDTO A PREFERENCE DESIGNATING POSITION INTO A NON-PREFERENCE DESIGNATINGPOSITION AND INTO A LOCKED POSITION, A MASTER RECORDING TAPE MOVABLYMOUNTED IN SAID APPARATUS, SAID MASTER RECORDING TAPE COMPRISING A STRIPHAVING A PLURALITY OF SLOTS IN A PLURALITY OF SUCCESSIVE AREAS THEREOF,AND A MAGNETIZABLE COATING ON SAID STRIP IN SECTIONS THEREOF ADJACENT TOEACH OF SAID PLURALITY OF AREAS CONTAINING SAID PLURALITY OF SLOTS, ANDMEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID PRIMARY ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT FOR TRANSPORTINGSAID TAPE IN ONE DIRECTION AND FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY RECORDING BITS THEREONIN SUCCESSIVE ONES OF SAID PLURALITY OF AREAS WHICH CORRESPOND TO THEDESIGNATIONS MADE BY EACH SUCCESSIVE VOTER OF HIS BALLOT PREFERENCES BYMOVEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID SWITCHES TO A PREFERENCE DEIGNATINGPOSITION.